As you get ready to move out of Mom and Dad's, some upfront leg work could save you many a headache. In many cities around the country, especially California, Florida and Arizona, it's a renter's market. Renters have more choices — from traditional apartments ...

The seemingly irreversible slide in Manhattan rents continued into January, according to a report (PDF) released today by Citi Habitats. Rents flopped almost across the board from December, with the exception of two-bedroom apartments, which saw an insignificant $4 increase on average. The year-over-year decline in average rents is much more pronounced, with rents falling dramatically: three-bedroom rents, now at ...

We learned that: David Shuster has his facts wrong on ground zero, not afraid to show it. The current tenant of Obama's old 109th Street apartment is nonplussed. The city has put Tavern on the Green on the leasing block! A rezoning could add 3,400 apartments to 30 blocks of the South Bronx. Polo Ralph Lauren re-upped at ...

Last Saturday, the Corcoran Group’s Harlem office, at the intersection of Frederick Douglass
Boulevard and 120th Street, was closed for the day. Listings for million-dollar townhouses and hundred-thousand-dollar apartments papered the office’s windows, concealing a barren and blacked-out room filled with desks and computer monitors. Corcoran announced in late January it would shutter the office, which it opened ...